From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F8961382C5 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 2020 11:39:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96060E0CBD; Mon, 7 Dec 2020 11:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B85D6E0798 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 2020 11:39:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-149-69-253.range86-149.btcentralplus.com ([86.149.69.253] helo=[192.168.1.64]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1kmErr-0001uZ-BU for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:39:47 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <8320c0f9-eef2-6198-478c-828b7b1d4eeb@youngman.org.uk> <994336cc-c090-38c0-f279-5c9b4a73bc39@gmail.com> From: Wols Lists Message-ID: <5FCE1482.70906@youngman.org.uk> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 11:39:46 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <994336cc-c090-38c0-f279-5c9b4a73bc39@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9d61cac8-e147-40d9-b063-11f0786c17e7 X-Archives-Hash: 7ad7081d559ee3b27b6c2238ab27bd18 On 07/12/20 04:24, Dale wrote: > I visited with my friend who recently got the same type of internet I'll > be getting. Odds are, the boxes will be the same. She has hers through > a power company and that's what I'm getting, just a different power > company. Anyway, as I suspected, it has a little box which is the > modem. It looks a lot like a old AT&T Westel modem. It's a little bit > smaller but other than that, almost identical. Can't comment. If you've already got a cat-5 link from your router to the internet modem, chances are you're okay. My two routers looked pretty much identical too - the only difference was the first had an RJ-11 WAN uplink, the second has an RJ-45. Other than that they are the exact same model. Cheers, Wol